Hmmm....Spain's rather more vigorous involvement in shedding the blood of LatAm's indigenous people....Cuba's habit of denying its citizens the right to choose their own government....the junta's disappearances...the admission by several Argentine navy officers that the Belgrano was a threat to our ships....the gutless defilement of islanders' homes in '82 ....Hugo's penchant for Cartier watches.... Hugo's involvement in a coup in the early nineties....the arrest of a Venezuelan businessman as he arrived in Argentina with a bag full of cash, on a flight carrying a senior Argentine politician....the transfer of spoil from the old Venezuelan oligarchy to his placemen....the point of spending $3 billion on weapons when so many of his people are so grindingly poor....nope, he doesn't seem to have touched on any of these.
Single LatAm army ? Getting past Uribe in Colombia might be interesting, let alone the Brazilians, and further south he doesn't have many influential friends in government. It's believed that if Mme Kirchner replaces her husband at the next election she'll backpedal away from Chavez to a tactful distance, both to regain traction with the US and because Chavez' assistance is reaching or has passed the limits of its usefulness. She shows no signs of ramping up the pressure on the FIs either, which is helpful.
I do like the idea of a Hugo and Bob Show, though. Suggested topics :
- Who has the bigger dick.
- Who is the bigger dick.
- Whose dad is harder.
- Whose dad was first to climb Everest. Alone. Without oxygen. Or clothes.
- Who scares the imperialist running dogs more.
- Why the only callers seem to be Ken from London and Tommy from Jockistan.